Silence is golden: journalists counted the number of words of Keanu Reeves in "John Wick - 4"

Killer John Wick is a man of few words. And he kept his reputation in the fourth film. How calculated According to The Wall Street Journal, in the last part of the franchise, he spoke only 380 words in 103 dialogues, and almost a third of his lines consisted of only one word.

“In the first part, lasting 101 minutes, Mr. Reeves spoke 484 words. The fourth is almost three hours long, but it has only 380 words. About 10% of them are presented in the trailer, which makes the hero almost seem like a talker - in a 2.5-minute video, he talks more than in the first 25 minutes of the film itself, ”the publication’s report notes.

Such an image of the heroJohn Wick - 4"created specifically. Film director and lead actor Keanu Reeves about half of the character's dialogue was cut from the original script.

For example, in the scene where John Wick and the villainous Marquis de Gramont discuss the rules of a duel, the protagonist initially accounted for 50% of the dialogue. However, the actor left himself only a few monosyllabic answers. And his longest remark was an appeal to a friend: “We left normal life behind us a long time ago, my friend.”

The action movie "John Wick - 4" from March 23 can be viewed in Russian cinemas.